I have always wondered if it were something about Dowland's personality versus Byrd. Was Byrd more user friendly? Did he have better people skills than Dowland? Or perhaps he was just better at buttering up the right people at the right time. Nancy Carlin
>I have just read my mail and realised that it didn't make much sense, what I >meant was.... > >Mr. Rooley, says that he does not believe that Dowland was such a staunch >Catholic and was not "paranoid" as Sting tries to describe him. Also >that Dowland >may have been a spy,something that Sting also does not want to hear. > >I had a look at the DVD version, which is maybe longer than the Television >programme. The discussion is interesting because as Diana Poulton's >book (have a >look at pages 40-41) states being Catholic did not mean that you experienced >the sort of persecution that Sting tries to suggest Dowland >suffered.The funny >thing is that the catholic musician Byrd has a wonderfully sucessful life >under Elizabeth. > >Mr. Rooley's Early Music Magazine (January 1983) article "New light on John >Dowland's songs of darkness" shows a very different view of Dowland >not as the >misunderstood paranoid, but as an artist who articulated ideas that form a >central to the renaissance. > >best wishes >Mark > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org --
